The Niagara Division of the Canadian Railway Historical Association has a tradition of an all day event on the Friday nearest to the Summer Solstice – the longest day of the year. Our conviction is that this is the best train spotting day of the year as we have the
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One of the leading railfan organizations in the U.S. is the National Railway Historical Society formed in 1935. The NRHS is the largest such group in North America with nearly 13,000 members and over 160 chapters. There is only one Canadian chapter, located in British Columbia and apparently engaged in preservation
New York City’s Grand Central Terminal is one of the world’s great railway stations. Click here to read the Wikipedia entry about its rich history. In that entry, they speak to: “A “secret” sub-basement known as M42 lies under the Terminal, containing the AC to DC converters used to supply
The train board that sometimes hangs on the side of Don Station is actually from the Canadian Pacific Agincourt station, which closed and was demolished in 1978. Using public timetables showing the train numbers and the times, it would appear that the information on the board was in effect from
I subscribe to an online service called Trainmaster TV. They publish videos on many different railway themed topics such as model railroading and railfanning. In the Niagara Region of Ontario, there is an extraordinarily talented model railroader, Lex Parker, who has produced an exquisite model railroad in On3 gauge which
Recently, Martin Van Kuilenburg and I visited Westfield Village in Hamilton, Ontario. Martin, who lives in Montreal, is a member of the team of TRHA volunteers that developed and maintains the Toronto Rail Lands simulation experience at our museum. At the Westfield Village website, they note that: “Westfield Village is
Photo by Mark Kaluza Jason Shron of the TRHA, leader of our LRC Restoration project, reports: “For the first time in over ten years, an LRC locomotive has pulled an LRC train! And for the first time in history, an LRC locomotive has pulled a rebuilt LRC coach! With the
We are out growing the storage available in our Miniature Railway Depot so we are adding a storage facility right beside the current building. We will be using a commercial 40″ diameter culvert to house some of our passenger cars with a track inside it. In the pictures below, we
As we learned from our successful but time consuming work in restoring the TH&B Caboose, restoration can be a long arduous task. Dan Cheer, one of our restoration crew volunteers, sends us the photos below which show the deterioration in the Cape Race passenger car’s vestibule floor plates which dropped
Continuing with our coverage of the Rail Safety Day event at Roundhouse Park on July 19th, we bring you some photos of Metrolinx’s Flexity LRT mockup which was open for visits all day. This vehicle is being built by Bombardier for the TTC to operate on the new Eglinton Crosstown